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Hirayama's Disease: A Rare Clinical Variant of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Author(s) -
Swati C Aundhakar,
Sanket Mahajan,
Daanish A Chhapra
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
advanced biomedical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2277-9175
DOI - 10.4103/2277-9175.211797
Subject(s) - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , disease , pathology , radiology
Hirayama's disease is a rare clinical variant of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis where distal muscles are involved more compared to proximal muscles and vice-versa occurs only in 10% cases and so it is differentiated from O'Sullivan McLeod syndrome which involves only small muscles of single limb. Here, we present a case of Hirayama's disease where disease achieved a plateau after 3 years with no further progression. His electrophysiological studies, and clinical picture, and magnetic resonance imaging findings were consistent with a diagnosis of Hirayama's disease

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